I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
So little time and so little to do.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Post je objavljen 26.05.2010. u 06:38 sati.